Posted by INP on September 05, 1997 at 15:33:42:
Research findings indicate that rigid gender-role stereotyping (i.e. sexism) is the one constant among homophobic individuals. The fear that the family will be undercut, and the very fabric of society challenges the social order in Western culture, which rests on role differentiation between males and females, in particular on the unequal division of power and status which confers privilege and advantage to males. It seeks to fragment society into different categories of people and it attempts to judge those disenfranchised groups to make them appear weak, impotent or inferior, thereby seeming to justify their "lower" status. Heterosexism serves to silence and erase the lives of lesbians, gays, and bisexuals. Living in such a climate where your sexual orientation is consistently devalued and frequently maligned as abnormal, pathological or "just not appropriate" for any setting, is intended to further isolate LGB's and make it that much harder for them to live and love. Sexism is almost always found among heterosexists. It is interesting that certain pumpers (or so they claim) mention their wife and/or heterosexuality in every post. ("...my wife loves me just the way I am....") If the heterosexist on this forum are not really homosexuals with internalized self-hatred, it is unbelievable any woman with a shred of self esteem would share the company of such sexists. The heterosexist who so blatantly and obtrusively flaunt their (claimed) heterosexuality in every posting to this forum are also the first ones to get upset and become "topic moderators" when anyone alludes to being gay . If you find gay men so offensive, why do you try so hard to emulate us? Penis pumping, ball pumping, ball stretching, body piercing and all the rest of this freaky shit was started by gays! No doubt if you could figure out how to suck a dick and call it straight, you would do that, too!